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nice! – After watching travel tv shows and reading the positive review on websites about this hotel, I booked 3 nights in September 2009. The rate was a little steep, but I decided to go ahead since this was a splurge-type weekend trip anyway.
We always wanted to visit San Diego, and on a short notice deal I found on the net, I got a good deal on airfare too. Los Angeles airport is simply out of the world and huge, and we had a little tough time finding an ATM at the arrival lounge.
Upon arrival at the hotel, we were recieved by the bellboys and a lovely usher who escorted us to the reception. I had requested for an early check-in while booking. The pleasant receptionist did try to sell me a costlier room if I wanted to check in early. I declined and informed her about requesting the shift manager personally on the phone for an early check-in and was asked to wait a while. So, we had breakfast at their restaurant while we waited. Though I was told that it could take a couple of hours , to our delight, an hour later the receptionist informed me that she could settle us in on our 2nd floor room. I did request a low room so we could easily go from the beach to our room. The rooms of standard size but very nice and tactfully done. They cater to both business guests and tourists, but I think tourists get more of a kick out of this place. The huge glass window in our room, overlooking the beach a big plus. We were particularly amazed at how brightly the surrounding area was lit even late in the night. Wonder if they are energy saving lights :).
If you're ever in San Diego , you must try out its variety of local Asian food restaurants. We really had a ball exploring on this one. There's a nice dimsum place called the Shanghai nearby, with a really good serve staff, and their food was YUMMY and filling. We once ended up walking deep into the streets to a famous dimsum tea house for another round of dimsum but they were fully booked.
The room service was prompt and very efficient at the Del. The best part was that water was included in the room charge. The nights in San Diego is the best part, and the harbour reminds you a lot of exotic tropical places, right smack in a metropolis! In spite of all the action though, the streets are spic and span. No wonder San Diego is such a popular tourist destination. We would love to go back to the Hotel Del Coronado.
New wine bar in Coronado! – I love this new little place in Coronado called Winestyles, great destination for a girls night out event! And they've got an amazing wine selection and fun atmosphere! Has anyone been?
horrible customer service! – This hotel has horrible customer service. My brother who is in the Army decided to get married in California and stay at Hotel Del Coronado for thier honeymoon. They made a reservation over the phone and they were told all they had to do was check in after thier wedding. When they arrived they were told that they needed to pay a 500$ deposit and they did not have the money to pay it. They ended cancelling thier room, but obviously they were charged a cancellation fee. The fee was $500 if you were a no show but since they did show up to the hotel it should have been only $250 which they were willing to pay. The person at the front desk said that they were a no show even though they had gas receits from a gas station in the neighborhood. I am very dissapointed because employees at Hotel Del Coronado were not upfront about a deposit and secondly the person lied about not putting in the system that they had showed up. What a way to treat a man in uniform!! The customer should always be right, and respect should be given to someone in millitary. Very upset!!!!
Editorial Review – Exclusive wine bar in the Hotel Del Coronado specializes tastings and wine flights paired with cheese and gourmet chocolate.
Out of town? Must stay here! – Historical hotel, sits right on the beach, has a huge pool with a pool side bar, beautiful deck to have lunch and grab a cocktail. Even a haunted room!! Beautiful hotel inside and out. Famous people always stay here! Located on the main coronado strip with absolutely fabulous views of the ocean. must come stay here even for a couple of days!!
Love is in the details - Simply Amazing – I stayed in the California Cabana just yards away from my wedding site on the beach. It was magnificent! There aren't enough adjectives in the English language to describe the utter joy and overwhelming happiness "Hotel Del" added to my extraordinary day. There are so many wonderful features and services to compliment: the exceptional service at 1500 Ocean, the relaxing room with an incredible view, the make-up artist at the salon; and, not to mention the amazing wedding cake the pastry chef made for us! I'm overjoyed, and anxious to return for my first anniversary! Our thanks to all for an incredible stay. The Scotts
Coronado's landmark hotel offers a spectacular beachfront setting combined with contemporary luxury, elegant dining and abundant recreational activities. – In Short
Considered one of the top resorts in the world by travel industry experts, the Del was designated a National Historic landmark in 1977. From the elegant lobby to the Victorian architecture and scenic gardens, the property retains its historic charm while providing guests with every modern convenience and a choice of several stellar restaurants. Popular as a wedding and honeymoon destination, the hotel is also perfect for families seeking an upscale beach vacation.
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West Allis says no to prepay at city gas stations
Move allows police to make gas drive-offs a lower priority
West Allis - The Common Council has done an about-face on support of an ordinance that would have required customers to prepay at local gas stations to reduce the number of gas drive-off thefts.
In September, the council supported the idea, but two aldermen - Vincent Vitale and Marty Weigel - who weren't in on the decision asked for reconsideration in October. That move has led to the council nixing a draft of the ordinance last week.
Weigel, for one, said the ordinance, which could have resulted in the loss of a station owner's business license if they didn't comply with the prepay rule, was excessive.
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Instead of approving the ordinance requiring prepay, aldermen have now decided to let police deal with the problem less formally - by suggesting to business owners that gas drive-off reports won't be prioritized and that a voluntary prepay approach makes the most sense.
That's better than passing a rule that essentially tells station owners how to run their business, said Alderman Thomas Lajsic.
But while Lajsic, who is chairman of the Safety and Development Committee that recommended dropping the ordinance idea, concurred with that business-friendly philosophy, he is at a loss to understand why station owners wouldn't require prepay voluntarily, to protect their business interests.
Voluntary compliance would help solve the city's dilemma: the Police Department's limited resources to respond to gas drive-off thefts.
"We spend far too much time on them," Lajsic said.
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To help police deal with the problem, aldermen gave a strong signal to police that they can make responding to gas drive-offs a low priority, in recognition of the fact that prepay - either through payments inside the store or credit cards at the pump - is a legitimate option for station owners.
"The Police Department can (encourage voluntary prepay) administratively by not responding to those types of calls," Lajsic said.
"I don't mean (patrol officers) would never come (in response in drive-off complaints)," he added, but higher priorities elsewhere would prevent police response in many instances.
Lajsic also maintained that the city would be well within its rights to order prepay, given the impact on the city.
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The original request for a prepay ordinance came from the Police Department, which was looking for some relief from responding to so many drive-off calls - nearly 700 reports from 2006 through 2011.
Interim Police Chief Charles Padgett said the request got a fair review from the council.
"They seriously considered it," he said. "They didn't take it lightly."
How will police now respond to such thefts?
"I don't like to use the term 'low priority,' " Padgett said, noting that a gas drive-off is truly a theft. But such cases don't usually involve violence, which is at the top of the police priority scale.
The department will continue to work with gas station owners on becoming prepay, he said.
In addition, Padgett said he will examine the policies of other police departments that have problems with gas drive-offs. If that results in a local policy change, gas station owners will be notified.
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The Longest Day
Cigar-chomping Darryl Zanuck re-created one of history's most momentous events on the beaches of Normandy.
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It is something of a miracle that the Allies succeeded on that cold, fog-shrouded morning of June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France. On that significant date General Eisenhower's huge invasion armada began the famous onslaught that would lead to the end of the Second World War.
It was easily the largest, most daring, meticulously planned military assault ever undertaken, yet it was also plagued by the most astonishing incidents and accidents, the kinds of human errors and communications failures that could easily have turned the effort into disaster--and in some instances did.
In 1961, Darryl F. Zanuck, producer and former czar of Twentieth Century Fox Studios, began to roll the cameras for The Longest Day, his painstaking reenactment in black and white of Operation Overlord, the code name for the invasion. Zanuck's is easily the most ambitious war film ever made. (Recently colorized, The Longest Day has been re-released on FoxVideo to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day.)
Zanuck used Cornelius "Connie" Ryan's book, The Longest Day, as the basis for his epic masterpiece. Ryan wrote the first script and eventually became a technical adviser to the film, which took virtually a year to create. Some of the historical mishaps that Ryan recounted seemed almost too unbelievable to be true, yet provided some of the most memorable moments in the film. The movie was divided into four segments: American, British, French and German--each with its own director and the cooperation of the respective government.
Zanuck, his cigar always firmly clamped between his teeth, was the "supreme commander" involved in just about every detail of the huge cinematic undertaking--right down to the timing of explosions on the sound track. One instance of his obsessive attention to detail was his search for two, old Messerschmitts, the only German planes that actually attacked the invasion force. He found them in Belgium, but he had to build some of the Horsa gliders that carried the advance Allied paratroopers behind the German front lines a few minutes after midnight on June 6.
I was director of publicity for the film and spent most of the year working very closely with Zanuck and his top assistants. He was not an easy boss--demanding, a stickler for detail and not known for a sense of humor. A former lieutenant colonel in the Signal Corps, he had two great loves: danger--any kind of danger--and cigars. To see Zanuck without his fat, long cigar was unthinkable. He smoked it, he chewed it, he used it like a swagger stick; he would sometimes poke you with it for emphasis. But although he had an almost bottomless supply of cigars, he never shared them with anyone, not even his closest aides.
Robert Mitchum, one of the 42 big-name stars in the movie, told me one evening in Caen that when Zanuck was head of the studio he often held meetings in his office. George Jessel, an avid cigar smoker, attended once, but had forgotten to bring his own cigar along and lusted for one that winked at him from Zanuck's open humidor.
When Zanuck turned his back, Jessel reached for the cigar. At that moment, Zanuck turned around and whacked him across the knuckles with a metal ruler. The injury that resulted was serious enough to send Jessel to the studio nurse, yet Zanuck thought he had been perfectly justified. In any case, he never apologized.
Zanuck also kept a supply of Havana cigars in a vault at Davidoff's famous store in Geneva. Whenever he ran low, I'd be asked to fly to Geneva on some pretext to pick up more boxes.
The title, The Longest Day, oddly, came from German General Rommel. Discussing the expected Allied landings on the French coast, he told an aide that if the Germans couldn't stop the Allied forces in their landing craft, despite the thousands of mines and the deadly underwater obstacles designed by the Desert Fox himself, that day would effectively end the war. "That will be the longest day," Rommel predicted. And it turned out to be--for both sides. It turned out that the day was longer for the Nazis because they ignored critical clues that could well have prepared them for D-Day.
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TV sting operation raises concern among India's outsourcing companies.
The program, which aired in Britain, showed a man from Calcutta boasting about his contacts in call centers across the country and offering to sell stolen credit card data from tens of thousands of British customers.
The National Association of Software Services Companies, or NASSCOM, said Channel 4 had not responded to written requests for help tracking down the people shown.
In a statement Friday, NASSCOM also said it had doubts whether the data sold to the television station were real and could harm customers.
Police have filed a case against the man shown on the program, but NASSCOM said he had fled his home with his family.
Timely cooperation by Channel 4 "would have enabled prompt action against the alleged criminals," the statement said.
"We have no further update from them on their intent to share the details of persons shown in the program who have 'sold' the data to Channel 4," the statement quoted NASSCOM Chairman Kiran Karnik as saying. "However, we will pursue it further to ensure that criminals, if any, are rightly taken to the concerned authorities."
But Channel 4 said it disagreed with NASSCOM.
"As a responsible broadcaster, our role is to bring our findings to the public. It is not the role of broadcasters or journalists to act as agents of the police or any other authority," the television station said in a statement.
Many U.S. and European companies have shifted their call centers to India to cut costs. Although there have been several cases of data theft, NASSCOM said such cases are not unique to India and that outsourcing companies in India adhere to high security standards.
"We take any alleged breach of security extremely seriously," Karnik said.
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All those pundits of outsourcing, repeat after me, "Duh!!!".You run trillions of dollars of outsourced financials through one of the poorest nations on earth, being handled by low paid citizens of that nation, you're really a moron if you think it isn't going to happen.Now, everyone that didn't say, "Duh!!!", say, "Wake up!!!".
As I recall remarking at the time that outsourcing became fashionable: the criminals must be howling in glee. Now instead of having to spend $50,000 to corrupt someone in the US or UK they need only spend $1,000! Where is the joined up thinking? Another example of corporate greed sponsoring criminality.
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As I read a data Breach in India thru Call center is a very serious matter. We as a customer can not trust to be secure. No matter where the call centers are the main concern is our security of the data of the card. If India cannot serve this security, it is the responsibility of the company how to save them or bring them back to US. this is the time to stop the outsourcing now.
I have talked to friends from India and they said that this goes on all the time. This is what happens when you outsource lots of jobs to save money for american corporations. This is why we need people in the U.S. and other countries to unionize.
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In this episode of SFMOMA Artcasts we visit two of the four site-specific artworks SFMOMA commissioned as part of the 2012 SECA Art Award exhibition. We begin at San Francisco's Neptune Society Columbarium, where artist Josh Faught has installed three of his hand-woven and hand-dyed fiber sculptures. Caretaker Emmitt Watson provides a rich oral history of the columbarium, and Faught discusses why he chose the site and how it resonates with his work. Next we head to Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, where artist Zarouhie Abdalian has installed five brass ship bells that ring for several minutes once a day at varying times, each bell playing a randomized rhythm. Abdalian explains the subtle ways her work impacts the surrounding space, and visitors to the plaza speculate about what her bells might signify.
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Larry DeClerk I too saw a fireball, mine was mid-day middle of summer. I was in So. Georgia USA, clear, hot day...the fireball fell almost vertically & I could clearly see what looked like rotation, or possibly flames &/or jets of gas coming off of it. The "flames" (for ease of description, probably plasma, I would guess) were changing colors from red to orange/yellow & blue-ish. It was so bright it caught my eye at a very high angle, probably 80% from horizon. Watched it fall-RAPIDLY to about 15-20% above horizon...& it flashed & disappeared, without hearing any boom or sound....I figured it had to be a fair distance away to have heard nothing. This was about 1980 or so, when I was 14 or 15 & made such an impression I have pondered it MANY times since...would give almost ANYTHING to know where it landed or even just how far away....there was no way to get a true idea of scale.
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The February meteor blast over central Russia glowed 30 times brighter than the sun, sunburned observers, and delivered the biggest astronomical punch felt on Earth in a century, report scientists.
Scientists warn that the 500-kiloton-or-stronger "airburst" over Chelyabinsk on February 15, 2013, points to a higher-than-expected threat from similar small asteroids in the future. (See "Exploding Asteroids Pose Greater Threat Than Direct Hits.")
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In the studies, the international impact teams re-created the roughly 65-foot-wide (20-meter-wide) asteroid's 42,500 mile-per-hour (68,400 kilometer-per-hour) collision with Earth's atmosphere.
The event injured about 1,500 people and damaged thousands of buildings in a part of central Russia that is home to one million people. (See "Russian Meteorite's Fiery Entry Captured by Satellites.")
"Some witnesses reported being burned by the light," says Science study co-author Peter Jenniskens of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
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On the day of the meteor's arrival, much of the astronomical world's attention was turned toward 2012 DA14, an office-building-size asteroid that made a close 17,100-mile-high (27,520-kilometer-high) passage over Earth.
News of the Russian meteor took observers by surprise, although experts such as NASA's Bill Cooke quickly deduced that it was unrelated to 2012 DA14, which passed harmlessly over the South Atlantic. Instead, the Chelyabinsk meteorite started its 18-second death plunge heading east across central Russia, in the Northern Hemisphere.
Astronomers didn't see it coming because of its relatively small size and because it was hurtling toward our planet from a sun-facing direction, blinding telescopes.
On its trajectory, the meteor first created a shock wave in the air about 59 miles (95 kilometers) above Earth, growing in strength and brightness as it burned and began to fragment.
At about 17 miles (27 kilometers) high, it broke apart, according to the Nature study led by Peter Brown of Canada's University of Western Ontario.
The breakup delivered a final blast of air pressure felt within 79 miles (127 kilometers) of the meteor.
Shattered fragments rained across central Russia, and a hole 23 to 26 feet (7 to 8 meters) wide was punched in the 27-inch-thick (70-centimeters-thick) ice of Lake Chebarkul, near Chelyabinsk. A 1,300-pound (600-kilogram) meteor fragment was recently recovered from the lake.
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One Nature study led by Jiri Borovicka of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ties the Chelyabinsk meteor's trajectory to rubble from the near-Earth asteroid 1999 NC43, which is roughly 1.37 miles (2.2 kilometers) wide and orbits the sun on a path that crosses Earth's orbit every few years.
Asteroid 1999 NC43 is not itself seen as a threat to Earth, but one of the analyses suggests that something hit the asteroid perhaps 1.2 million years ago, knocking off pieces of rubble that included the Chelyabinsk meteor.
"The rest of the rubble could still be part of the near-Earth object population of asteroids," concludes the Science study led by Olga Popova of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
That means more pieces could be headed our way.
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That same concern appears in the Nature analysis led by Brown, which notes that only about 500 asteroids in the size range of 33 to 66 feet (10 to 20 meters), the size range of the Chelyabinsk meteor, have been spotted by astronomers to date.
But perhaps 20 million such small asteroids are thought to orbit on paths that bring them near Earth, the authors say.
That significantly raises the possibility of future airburst events like the Russian meteor, the study suggests, and the 1908 Tunguska event.
Tunguska was a much larger, 10,000- to 50,000-kiloton airburst that flattened several hundred miles of Siberian forest (for context, the 1945 atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima delivered a roughly 15-kiloton explosion).
"Chelyabinsk opens the door for new analyses of airburst events and their frequency," says MIT impact expert Richard Binzel, who was not on the study teams. He calls the studies a "final word" on the much-debated size and power of the Russian meteor.
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Larry DeClerk I too saw a fireball, mine was mid-day middle of summer. I was in So. Georgia USA, clear, hot day...the fireball fell almost vertically & I could clearly see what looked like rotation, or possibly flames &/or jets of gas coming off of it. The "flames" (for ease of description, probably plasma, I would guess) were changing colors from red to orange/yellow & blue-ish. It was so bright it caught my eye at a very high angle, probably 80% from horizon. Watched it fall-RAPIDLY to about 15-20% above horizon...& it flashed & disappeared, without hearing any boom or sound....I figured it had to be a fair distance away to have heard nothing. This was about 1980 or so, when I was 14 or 15 & made such an impression I have pondered it MANY times since...would give almost ANYTHING to know where it landed or even just how far away....there was no way to get a true idea of scale.
What if this had happened in the late 60s when we were all doing nuclear attack drills in grade school?
I think that regardless of whether it happened over the USSR or US, it easily could have triggered a world wide nuclear war when the country "attacked" quickly launched a retaliatory strike.
Chance plays such a large role in our short lives (and our quick deaths). Guess that's why the practice of sacrificing and praying to influence the supreme beings thought to be in control is so prevalent through the ages, not to mention the completely unsupported but eqully prevalent belief of life persisting after life ceases.
Sorry folks. But NG articles are just so darned thought provoking.
Love this. Shows the power of God when people run to science and technology to fix everything. Wouldn't all really matter if one of those bastards slammed into your hometown, would it? Praise God!
Fantastic and fascinating information......shudder to think of such incident happening over a densely crowded city like Mumbai !!!
I hope that never hits my homeland
It will be the end of California as a State should a meteor of this dimension triggers a megaquake on the San Andreas fault...
I remember seeing a fireball traveling essentially on a horizontal plane in mid 1971. It was between May and Oct, at approximately midnight. It looked to be roughly the size of a tennis ball held at arms length with actual flames coming off of it. I did not hear any sound, but the light from it attracted my attention when it lit the inside of my vehicle up like daylight. This was in Western Ny State. It was traveling North and heading out towards Lake Ontario. I often wonder if it landed somewhere up in Canada, and just what was its actual size.
Sad that we are this vulnerable.
Due to the fact that it came out as a surprise as well as the fact that it wreaked damage for such a 'small meteor", it really makes one ponder, 'Just how prepared are we for celestial impaction on our planet?"
Well, for the moment they keep hitting Russia, let's hope they continue doing so... ;-)
500,000 metric Tons of FORCE!!! Ouch.
Imagine this meteor hitting the east coast of the US.
@stephen fain It happens. There was on in the Southeast not too long ago...
@Lyle Marks Then why are you using technology to spread your words, use the power of the imaginary dictator to communicate to the rest of us!
No offense @Lyle Marks, but I really don't get how a random celestial event of this sort "shows the power of God".
Also "wouldn't all really matter" if someone simply trips walking down into the basement and hits their head hard on the sharp edge of a concrete step as my uncle did the day he died. They're dead either way, whether from a small event or a large.
Why is this "power of God" only evident in big events that randomly kill people?
@Ernesto Gomez: Take heed, and be quiet; fear not. Neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands. :)
@John Wachira Well the asteroid was in front of the Earth. The Earth's gravity captured the asteroid, so basically the Earth was trying to kill us.
@Charlotte-ellen Bebee Its the circle of life, so we cannot be prepared for a future possible impact.
@Charlotte-ellen Bebee we are not at all prepared. Even if a potentially life-ending asteroid were to be identified, we do not have technology or power to shoot Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis up into space and blow it up.
@Enzo Lanza idiot
@Tyler BlackKilotons is not a force measurement, it's an energy unit. A kiloton or more properly kiloton TNT is the amount of energy released by a 1000 tons of TNT going off. 500 kilotons = 2.09 × 10^15 joules. Based on when and where the measurement came about it would not be a metric ton but a 2000 lb ton.
@Arthur Jr ...Or imagine the west, were it may trigger a quake?
@Jason Dynak @Charlotte-ellen Bebee True story!
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- Their main business activities are supplying and servicing energy stations of companies, managing public lighting systems and a complex technical service of energy facilities and units.
- EH Vítkovice, EH Mohelnice and EH Colorlak are among some of the largest energy stations which are managed by ČEZ Energetické služby.
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- Plzeňský Prazdroj, a. s., is a member of the SABMiller PLC Pilsner Urquell global group, it is an international flagship of SABMiller portfolio of brands.
- SABMiller PLC is one of biggest beer companies in the world, with activities and distribution in more than 60 countries on six continents.
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Djokovic and Djokovic will not allow to Roger!
290 weeks at number one now.
Sampras is next on the list with 286.
ps. 17 > 5.
have a nice day!
Congratulation katmilr and congratulation to all Roger's fans!
Yes, you are right katmilr, Novak couldn't back to No.1 yet! And this is a record for Roger to be on top!
Maria is very happy.
Why not? Winning a medal for one's country - regardless of color is very special !
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Novak will have really tough match agaunst Andy, Andy got gold medal in Olympic! Novak should focus anf just defeat Andy!
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So it's just like in any other organization: punish the foot-soldiers and the higher-ups keep on partying as though nothing had happened.
Just like Leeson & Kerviel, a back office worker moved to the trading desk, then using their knowledge of the control systems to hide their fraudulent trades. Are we seeing a pattern, yet?
Why is this article slanted to make the crimes of adoboli seem justified?
"everyone else does it" "the bosses wanted to take greater risks"
are not valid excuses for fraud and basically gambling money from investors and hiding the evidence when losses piled up.
Common street criminals come up with better excuses regarding their behavior.
Shame on whoever wrote this tripe.
"A mechanism for verifying trades was mysteriously switched off until his activities were exposed."
"Mysteriously" huh??? ?Dude was the fall guy. He should have taken measures to cover his butt. Investment trading desks do this every day; even now. When you make them money, not a peep is heard. When you lose billions, it's the guillotine.
I don't think the article was justifying the crimes, rather that a the problem is bigger than one rogue trader and needs to be acknowledged as such.
Not quite...the higher-ups and the foot-soldiers (dealers/traders) will party whilst the book is in green...the moment it turns red (losses) even the higher-ups (vp's md's etc) will be shafted to such an extent that would make them carry out trades that are beyond rational understanding...
that does not seem the case. this is 100% front-office responsability. people who book fake trades have no idea of back office practice, they just think to play videogames, they usually try not to sign any written contract with counterparty, trying to avoid legal responsability
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As the tablet market grows from about 20 million in 2010 to roughly 195 million in 2014, Whitmore believes Apple is aiming squarely at an underserved price point between $250 and $350. (See chart.)
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Hi my name is Ashley Me and my fiance think im pregnant he was telling me that his ex girlfriend didn't show signs or anything till she was 5-6 and her pregnancy test came out nagitive until she was 5 months ago!, what should i do?
I had unprotected sex with my husband on 28th feb.my last periods date was on 10th feb..so wil i become pregnant?
I had unprotected sex on February 13th 3 times and my last period lasted February 7-12. Then unprotected sex again on the 23rd of February. I am not on birth control so what are my chances of getting pregnant? I have had small cramps plus more gas/belching than normal.
Here is my story...nov is was six days late for my period, dec I was two days early, jan on time, feb three days early...of a 26 day cycle, so I should not be pregnant! Well, I started experiencing really bad headaches and severe bloating and nausea around jan. My stomach has not been a washboard, but I could get away with the slimness; and I swim three times a week. My ex-husband made me take a pregnancy test mid jan...NEG! I was good with that until I continued to have headaches and nausea, so I called my PCP. He did a blood panel and from that I had an elevated liver count (alt 55/ast 198) but that did not explain the symptoms. I took another pregnancy test b/c my ex kept persisting I am pregnant with all his crazy symptoms...food cravings (steak/steak sub 2am...we almost never eat after 7p & he doesn't eat red meat), sleeping all the time, doing really weird stuff, etc.; he irrates me to no end, certain scents make me nauseated, I am short tempered, I've met my Pizza quota (3-4 servings a yr) for the year and most importantly I have become really emotional…will cry at the drop of a dime! That preg test was NEG!
Ok…so I had to take another liver test and requested a blood preg test...the liver test went down (alt 38/ast 51) and the preg test was NEG. Still bloating, now developed intergestion like crazy over the past three weeks, still having headaches, vomit my lunch last week, regurgitated a few times, so I told my pcp he has to do something. I req for a u/s of my stomach b/c apparently there's a problem. Ok, everything looks fine...liver, gallbladder (no stones...the common duct is obscured by bowel gas), pancreatic body is normal, spleen normal (no fluid), r kidney normal, but the l kidney has mild fullness of the renal pelvis w/o frank hydronephrosis. Btw, all tests for cbc + automated and comprehensive metabolic were good…hbp, glucose, amylase, creatinine, bilirubin were within normal range; my rdw was 14.1 H and the glomer. rate was 53 L. I have the numbers if needed. I did have a couple of nose bleeds that I forgot to tell my PCP about. I was told by some health professionals @ work it could just be that my nose is really dry. What's wrong with me?
Hi I'm only 14... Please don't judge but I threw up & have been having some bad cramps in my tummy , my emotions been changing everyday like today I was happy than upset than to worried & now crying.. My stomach is starting to get hard right below my boobs ..& I haven't had my period yet but I had sex before like 1 week ago ..& I'm scared I might be pregnant ...
I am 18 weeks pregnant n also suffering from kidney stone. Is it safe to take iron follic n calcium tabs? Whether these tab increase stone...?
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Is it possible to not be pregnant after plenty times of unprotected sex and being ejaculated in?
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So me and my boyfriend had intercourse Dec 25 without a condom but he pulled out before he came and I am on birth control and he pulls out using a condom I am 11 days late for my period and my last one was the First of December and I was suppose to start Jan 4 and I didn't could anybody help me out and let me know what you think is going on. I haven't had any symptoms of pregnancy except my stomach feeling like it's moving around. I hope someone can help
My wife is 15 1/2wks pregnant recently she visited a doctor for a check up when she told the doctor she had some pains that were concerning her so they did some test well it turned out her placenta was sitting below her uterus and the blood vessel is swollen and put her on bed rest. Ok my question is why is it she can't keep her good dwn everything she eats she vomits and now I'm concerned what can we do? Another question i, is it safe for her to take hydrocodone narcotics?
hi me and fiance are trying to start a family. We had intercourse on ocober 25th and he ejaculated in me mind me saying it was about 3 days after my period can i become pregnant?
dear expert, hi, I am 24 years old, I want to know if I am pregnant. the case is, me and my boyfriend had sex on 5 th and 6 th day of my cycle (there ws 4 months gap since last time as we stay in different States), I took the emergency contraceptive pill within 24 hours of sex. I observed dark brown bleeding started on 13 th day and ended on 16 th day which we considered as ovulation bleeding which ws the very first time for me. it's my 33rd day and I haven't got my period yet. should we worry? did we mistake implantation bleeding for ovulation bleeding? plz helpuh
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Where the High Five came From: The Art of the Kingdom of Kongo
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Dr. Robert Farris Thompson has devoted his life to the study of the art history of the Afro-Atlantic world. This presentation focuses on the origin of the High Five, a gesture seen as uniquely American. Dr. Thompson, a dynamic speaker, discusses the origin of this physical gesture and the meanings behind it.
His first book, Black Gods and Kings, was a close iconographic reading of the art history of the forty million Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. He has published texts on the structure and meaning of African dance, African Art in Motion, and a reader on the art history of the Black Americas, Flash of the Spirit, which has remained in print since its publication in 1983. Thompson has published two books on the bark cloth art of the Bambenga or Buraka of the Ituri Forest, plus the first international study of altars of the Black Atlantic world, Face of the Gods and most recently Tango: The Art History of Love. In addition, he has published an introduction to the diaries of Keith Haring, studies the art of José Bedia and Guillermo Kuitca and has been anthologized fifteen times and his writings have been published in five different languages. He is also the Master of Timothy Dwight College at Yale.


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By NICK ROGERS
Fire stoked in a belly or fear struck in a heart isn't a traditional measure of success for a piece of music. For Jay Ungar, that essence is inherent to the hits of the '60s.
The 1860s, that is.
"Without recordings and radio and all that, many more people played an instrument, and everybody sang," says Ungar, a fiddler and mandolin player. "It was part of the fabric of the culture. Music also had an effect during the war, when a powerful song like 'Battle Cry of Freedom' was said to actually affect the outcome of battle."
The Civil War, and its preceding tensions, dictated the emotions behind much of America's popular music from the 1840s to 1860s. However, those tunes echoed not just a tumultuously changing society or combat's chaos, but also a trans-generational importance of home comforts, family milestones and community togetherness.
In that more joyous spirit, the University of Illinois at Springfield will host "An Early Birthday Party for A. Lincoln" at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31 in Sangamon Auditorium.
Headlining this musical bicentennial celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birth will be Ungar and his wife, Molly Mason, who plays mandolin, guitar and piano. The duo is best known for "Ashokan Farewell," a haunting instrumental immortalized in popular culture by its memorable use in "The Civil War," Ken Burns' 1990 PBS documentary. Ungar and Mason will perform that, along with many 19th-century tunes.
Accompanying them will be two Springfield arts groups with UIS connections – the 10th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Band and the Springfield International Folk Dancers.
Including those groups, says Sangamon Auditorium director Robert A. Vaughn, continues the auditorium's ongoing mission to foster local collaboration and expand outreach.
"We've made great strides to improve that sense of university ownership while further strengthening collaborative ties with civic arts organizations," Vaughn says. "It provides the opportunity to see the auditorium as more than just a place that people can go and see performances, but as a tool to enrich curriculum."
For this artistic complement to Lincoln's bicentennial birthday on Feb. 12, Vaughn purposely avoided scheduling it at the same time as other planned celebrations.
"I thought it wouldn't make a lot of sense to try to crowd the calendar at that time, but to have a more modest celebration out on campus," Vaughn says.
Modest, perhaps, but its deep fidelity to the time period is, in one instance, literal icing on the cake.
Shortly after its mustering in 1861, the 10th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry became one of few such regiments to have its own 12-member band. Today, the band is a 25-member group of central Illinois musicians who wear Civil War-style cavalry uniforms and play antique brass instruments and re-produced drums.
Conducting the cavalry band is Todd Cranson, assistant director of co-curricular music at UIS and director of the UIS band and chamber orchestra. Cranson's polished-ebony baton, inlaid with silver, once belonged to the leader of the 2nd Iowa Cavalry Band, which frequently performed for Abraham Lincoln.
Cranson also has collaborated with Ungar and Mason on adapting their existing arrangements to include the cavalry band's instrumentation. Although string groups and brass bands of the day often played the same songs, they rarely played together. Modern amplification has simplified blending the instruments, Cranson says.
The cavalry band's drums are built to era specifications, namely with thinner shells and ropes to draw tension on the heads. Mere babies in the brass timeline, the band's wind instruments generally have a higher pitch and thinner sound than modern counterparts. Different tuning standards on each instrument also make hitting uniform tones harder.
"The musicians really have to center in and put it there using ears and experience," Cranson says.
Among the folk dancers joining the cavalry band onstage during "The Mary Lincoln Polka" will be Amy Zepp – a UIS graduate student in public administration and a graduate assistant at Sangamon Auditorium.
"People were just starting to learn the traditional polka that we think of today," Zepp says of that selection's period-specific choreography. "It will be similar to what people are familiar with now, but somewhat more traditional. The positioning of the couple will be farther apart, as such close dancing was considered inappropriate."
Lastly, in the auditorium lobby after the performance, complimentary birthday cake – from a Mary Todd Lincoln recipe – will be served, along with punch and coffee.
When selecting Ungar and Mason to perform, Vaughn was particularly stricken by the suitability of "Ashokan Farewell." Ungar composed the piece in 1982 as an elegy for the end of a musically memorable summer. Eight years later, Burns used it numerous times during "The Civil War," and the tune propelled the soundtrack to a 1991 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album.
Ungar says he may have "unintentionally Americanized" the Scottish lament style with "Ashokan Farewell." But it since has become synonymous with both the era's musical style and a general sense of human sadness or longing.
"We hear from a lot of people who've not ever seen the 'Civil War' series who write me almost in shock, asking, 'Why am I crying when I hear this tune?' It's gratifying to know it touches many people in that way," Mason says.
"I thought it was embarrassing to play that tune with tears coming out of the corner of my eye," Ungar says. "But when I saw it did the same for others, it was magical."
Prior to the concert, Ungar will present a fiddling workshop discussing his music at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29 in the Visual and Performing Arts Building. Those interested in participating may call (217) 206-6150.
Alongside "Ashokan Farewell" on the Jan. 31 program will be selections tied to the country's mid-19th-century mood, Lincoln's musical preferences and his political legacy.
"The Vacant Chair" sadly chronicles a family gathering with a seat left open in memory of a fallen soldier. A sing-along medley that Ungar and Mason dub "Hits of the '60s" will touch on popular Union and Confederate melodies.
"We came to understand that the songs of the north were sung in the south and vice versa," Ungar says. "We were still one cultural unit in some ways. Everyone knew all the songs, and the most powerful ones, the other side would have their own lyrics for them."
One humorous lyric alteration occurred in Stephen C. Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More." Soldiers frequently changed its chorus to "Hard crackers come again no more," referencing an infantryman's standard-ration hardtack biscuit. Cranson says the lyrics will be altered for the number during the performance.
"Wake Nicodemus" – written in 1864 by outspoken abolitionist and self-taught musical composer Henry Clay Work – portends war's end and freedom for slaves. "The Gum Tree Canoe" also comes from a slave perspective, albeit two decades earlier. In it, a man and woman receiving weekly time off from their work enjoy a canoe ride until, one day, they decide to paddle on until meeting a Union gunship.
Mason hopes to perform "Listen to the Mockingbird," an 1855 song reported to be Lincoln's favorite and one that has lived on as a fiddle-contest favorite.
Also, two original works from former United States Marine Band leader Francis Scala will be featured – the aforementioned "The Mary Lincoln Polka" and a march Scala wrote for Lincoln's first inauguration. (The march's arrangement has modern notation, but Cranson, Mason and Ungar adapted it from original parts.)
"The identity in the music we're looking at here has a very strong emotional content," Ungar says. "It is very playable and danceable, and has lyrics that speak very directly of people's feelings, inner life and higher goals to aspire to."
"It's one part educational and one part historical to a modern audience, but the major portion is for entertainment," Cranson says. "The kind of thing it seems Abe liked the most is fun."
Tickets for "An Early Birthday Party for A. Lincoln" are $37 and are available: online at www.sangamonauditorium.org; by calling (217) 206-6160 or toll free at (800) 207-6960; or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Sangamon Auditorium Ticket Office.


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California foreclosures and short sales are a smaller part of October market
Reed Saxon
A foreclosure sign in Pasadena. Foreclosures and short sales are a smaller part of the market in October, according to the California Association of Realtors.
California's real estate market has been anything but healthy since the housing bubble burst. But there are now signs that the patient is on the mend. And really, what a difference a year makes! Last October, so-called "distressed sales" made up half of all monthly transactions in California real estate.
In this case, "distressed" means foreclosures and short sales. Short sales in particular have become popular. That's when the lender accepts less for the house that what the borrower owes.
A year later, the numbers have been reversed. The California Association of Realtors now reports that in October, distressed sales fell to just over a third of the market. Los Angeles County mirrored this statewide trend.
One reason why distressed sales are falling is that there simply aren't as many of them on the market. There was only a 2-month supply of foreclosures in September and a 3-month supply for short sales. Those inventories could rise as banks put more foreclosures in the market and borrowers who remain underwater on their mortgages, just not as much as a year ago, decide to go for a short sale.
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